Festival Special | Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Twelve islands surrounding Taiwan, sixteen directors creating experimental documentaries about them.
'Floating Islands' is Taiwan’s largest experimental documentary project to date. The Firefly Image Company organised the artistic project in 1999, inviting 12 directors from different generations to create experimental film works about the 12 islands surrounding Taiwan. This programme, consisting of works originally shot on film and now digitised by Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, asks us to reconsider and reimagine the relationships between 'main island' and 'outlying islands' over the past decades.
The other selected works on the theme of Taiwan's outlying islands in recent years are equally diverse in forms and perspectives. Marshal Tie Jia – Turtle Island by HSU Chia-wei, uses the small offshore island of Matsu as a virtual green screen stage; Yannick Dauby’s She heard nothing in Matsu. She heard everything. constructs the image of Matsu through rich sound; Erica SHEU’s It follows It passes on, and don't be afraid let it show trace the cross-generational memories of Kinmen through her father’s eyes; and Beigu Islet by Chen Hsin-yu, explores the northernmost territory of Taiwan with a contemplative gaze.
The 16 featured works will stream online for free over two weeks, from March 10 to March 23. Don’t miss the chance to rediscover Taiwan's outlying islands through different lenses!
✺ 'Floating Islands' project:
Silent Delta
Turtle Island: Nostalgic Voices
Trouble
West Island
Shadow Dancing at Ma Tsu
Before the Radiation
The Floating Ball
03:04
Libangbang: Ching-Wen's Not Home
Who Is Fishing®?
✺ Taiwan Docs selection:
It follows It passes on
don't be afraid let it show
Beigu Islet
She heard nothing in Matsu. She heard everything.
Marshal Tie Jia – Turtle Island
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